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1 Samuel 8:3
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However, his sons did not walk in his ways—they turned toward dishonest profit, took bribes, and perverted justice.
His sons didn't walk in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted justice.
And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment.
But his sons did not walk in his ways; they turned aside after gain, they took bribes, and they perverted justice.
Yet his sons did not walk in his ways but turned aside after gain. They took bribes and perverted justice.
But Samuel's sons did not live as he did. They tried to get money dishonestly, and they accepted money secretly to make wrong judgments.
But his sons did not follow his ways. Instead, they made money dishonestly, accepted bribes, and perverted justice.
His sons, however, did not walk in his ways, but turned aside after dishonest gain, took bribes, and perverted justice.
His sons, however, did not walk in his ways but turned aside after dishonest gain, and they took bribes and perverted justice.
And his sonnes walked not in his wayes, but turned aside after lucre, and tooke rewards, and peruerted the iudgement.
But his sons did not walk in his ways, but turned aside after greedy gain and took bribes and caused justice to turn aside.
However, his sons did not follow his way of life; they turned off it to pursue riches, so that they would take bribes to distort justice.
And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted justice.
But Samuel's sons did not live the same way he did. Joel and Abijah accepted bribes. They took money secretly and changed their decisions in court. They cheated people in court.
But his sons did not walk in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes and perverted judgment.
But they did not follow their father's example; they were interested only in making money, so they accepted bribes and did not decide cases honestly.
And his sons did not walk in his ways, and turned aside after dishonest gain, and took a bribe, and perverted judgment.
Neuertheles his sonnes walked not in his wayes, but enclyned vnto couetousnes, & toke giftes, & wraysted the lawe.
And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted justice.
And his sons did not go in his ways, but moved by the love of money took rewards, and were not upright in judging.
And his sonnes walked not in his wayes, but turned aside after lucre, and tooke rewarde, and peruerted the ryght.
And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted justice.
And his sonnes walked not in his wayes, but turned aside after lucre, and tooke bribes, & peruerted iudgement.
And his sons did not walk in his way; and they turned aside after gain, and took gifts, and perverted judgments.
And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment.
But his sons did not walk in his ways; they turned aside toward dishonest gain, accepted bribes, and perverted justice.
And hise sones yeden not in `the weies of hym, but thei bowiden after aueryce, and thei token yiftis, and peruertiden doom.
and his sons have not walked in his ways, and turn aside after the dishonest gain, and take a bribe, and turn aside judgment.
And his sons didn't walk in his ways, but turned aside after greed for monetary gain, and took bribes, and perverted justice.
And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment.
His sons didn't walk in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted justice.
But his sons did not walk in his ways; they turned aside after dishonest gain, took bribes, and perverted justice.
But they were not like their father, for they were greedy for money. They accepted bribes and perverted justice.
But his sons did not walk in his ways. They turned aside to get money. They took pay to do things that were not right and fair.
Yet his sons did not follow in his ways, but turned aside after gain; they took bribes and perverted justice.
Howbeit his sons walked not in his ways, but stooped to extortion, - and took bribes, and perverted judgment.
And his sons walked not in his ways: but they turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment.
Yet his sons did not walk in his ways, but turned aside after gain; they took bribes and perverted justice.
His sons, however, did not walk in his ways, but turned aside after dishonest gain and took bribes and perverted justice.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
his sons: 2 Samuel 15:4, 1 Kings 12:6-11, 2 Kings 21:1-3, Ecclesiastes 2:19, Jeremiah 22:15-17
but turned: Exodus 18:21, Deuteronomy 16:19, Psalms 15:5, Psalms 26:10, Isaiah 33:15, 1 Timothy 3:3, 1 Timothy 6:10
Reciprocal: Exodus 23:8 - thou shalt take 1 Samuel 12:2 - my sons 1 Samuel 12:12 - Nay Job 15:34 - the tabernacles Proverbs 15:27 - He that is Proverbs 17:21 - that Proverbs 17:23 - General Ecclesiastes 7:7 - a gift Hosea 4:18 - her Amos 5:12 - take Micah 3:11 - heads Acts 24:26 - hoped Ephesians 5:3 - covetousness
Cross-References
Noah was six hundred years old when the water under the earth started gushing out everywhere. The sky opened like windows, and rain poured down for forty days and nights. All this began on the seventeenth day of the second month of the year.
A hundred fifty days later, the water started going down.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And his sons walked not in his ways,.... The meaning of which is not that they did not go the circuit he did, which is too low a sense of the words some Jewish writers give; but they did not walk in the fear of God, in the paths of religion and righteousness, truth and holiness; they neither served God, nor did justice to men, as Samuel had done:
but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment; indulged to covetousness, sought to get riches at any rate, took bribes, which blind the eyes of judges; and so passed wrong judgment, and gave the cause to those that gave the largest gifts, right or wrong.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 1 Samuel 8:3. His sons walked not in his ways — Their iniquity is pointed out in three words:
1. They turned aside after lucre; the original (×צע batsa) signifies to cut, clip, break off; and therefore Mr. Parkhurst thinks that it means nearly the same with our clipping of coin. It however expresses here the idea of avarice, of getting money by hook or by crook. The Targum says, "They looked after ×××× ×שקר mamon dishkar, the mammon of unrighteousness;" of which they did not make unto themselves friends but enemies; Matthew 6:24.
2. They took bribes; ש×× shochad, gifts or presents, to blind their eyes.
3. They perverted judgment - they turned judgment aside; they put it out of its regular path; they sold it to the highest bidder: thus the wicked rich man had his cause, and the poor man was oppressed and deprived of his right.
This was the custom in our own country before MAGNA CHARTA was obtained; he that would speed in the king's court must bribe all the officers, and fee both the king and queen! I have found in our ancient records the most barefaced and shameful examples of this kind; but it was totally abolished, invito rege, by that provision in the above charter which states, Nulli vendemus, nulli negabimvs ant differemus rectum aut judicium; "To no man will we sell, to no man will we deny or defer, justice and right." It was customary in those inauspicious times, for judgment to be delayed in banco regis, in the king's court, as long as there was any hope that more money would be paid in order to bring it to issue. And there were cases, where the king did not like the party, in which he denied justice and judgment entirely! Magna Charta brought them to book, and brought the subject to his right.
Of those times it might well be said, as Homer did, Iliad xvi., ver. 387.
ÎÎ¹Ì Î²Î¹Î·Í Î±Î³Î¿Ïη ÏÎºÎ¿Î»Î¹Î±Ï ÎºÏινÏÏι θεμιÏÏαÏ,
Îκ δε δικην ελαÏÏÏι, θεÏν οÏιν Î¿Ï Îº αλεγονÏεÏ.
"When guilty mortals break the eternal laws,
Or judges, bribed, betray the righteous cause."
"When the laws are perverted by force; when justice is expelled from her seat; when judges are swayed from the right, regardless of the vengeance of Heaven." Or, in other words, these were times in which the streams of justice were poisoned in their source, and judges neither feared God nor regarded man.
